Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I\’m just using the […]
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007\’s Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards. Maybe it\’s just me? Â But \”Coming Holiday season\” makes […]
One of the discussions that arise anytime we bring up a new graphics card from ATI or NVIDIA is about which company has the better drivers. Well, this should help sway the argument a little bit. It would seem StarCraft II Beta players were among the first to notice low frame rates while using the […]
Am I the only one that hasn\’t heard of this? A really free MMO? It\’s been only since February 2006, and evidently just recently became available in the US…. I guess I don\’t feel so clueless, but still… And the comic is from Reallifecomics… (March 05)
This is cool.  Now if I just can remember that this alias is available…  I wonder why no one else thought about this…. Tired of having no choice but to add aliases for localhost to /etc/hosts every time you work on a site that uses subdomains? Me too. That’s why I grabbed smackaho.st and made […]
This is truly a groaner, if I have ever seen one… But, it\’s a great series… Irregular Web Comic
The BBC Press Office have announced that the Doctor Who Children\’s Television spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures has been recommissioned for a further two series. Both series will consist of twelve, twenty-five minute episodes. Says CBBC Controller Damian Kavanagh: We are thrilled to be making many more episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures. It is […]
Well, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words… So, here\’s a good summary of why DRM doesn\’t work… This is from Brad Colbow\’s web comic \”The Brads\”…